For those in Birmingham - what's this waste ground?

ahar

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Staying in the Rotunda in Birmingham City centre and I can see this giant bit of waste ground.

For reference, the Bullring shipping centre is in the bottom part of the picture, and the white roofing in the middle of the pic to the right of the church is the market.

Looks like an awful waste of prime ground that's been like that for a while!

Have googled but can't work out what it is.
 
It looks like the remains of a number of old buildings that have been flattened.

IIRC years ago when I used to get the train through Birmingham New street and Wolverhampton, you'd go past lots of demolished or to-be-demolished buildings.
 
ahar said:
Aha, thanks!

I was at uni in Birmingham in the 90s, loved that market area for cheap stuff
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Still a market there in front of it.

I had the misfortune to spend a few nights in the serviced apartments opposite Travelodge a while back. Popular area with crackheads, dealers, tramps and ****heads fighting on weekends.
 
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mid_gen said:
Still a market there in front of it.

I had the misfortune to spend a few nights in the serviced apartments opposite Travelodge a while back. Popular area with crackheads, dealers, tramps and ****heads fighting on weekends.
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That's Birmingham yes.
 
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The only good thing there is a bar called Scruffy Murphy's on the edge of the bullring.

Rock music, cheap drinks and scantily clad bar ladies.

Otherwise from what I saw it's pretty grim.
 
arknor said:
wow people live there looks awful, looks like it's straight out of Russia the poor parts
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Birmingham consistently ranks above Newcastle upon Tyne in the top cities in the UK to live and work etc. Perhaps you envy their working toilets and non-falling out windows.
 
I recognise the cathedral in the OP's photo as it connects the Bullring/station area to Digbeth.

I just hope they don't bulldoze Digbeth as that's the dance capital of Birmingham. Been to many good nights there such as Godskitchen @ Sanctuary (now the Institute), Code/Air, Custard Factory, Rainbow Warehouse and Boxxed. Also Sundissential @ Sanctuary but other places as well such as DNA near New Street Station and Polysexual at the Dome II on Bristol Street. Nearly all of these places gone now but it's a sign of the times. If you went back 20 years though, then Birmingham was the best place for clubbing. The clubbing/dance scene is in desperate need of a bounce-back from the 2020-2021 disaster that was called covid-19. Trancecoda was the last decent event I went to, but I think they're now London-based.
 
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